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In order to submit a regrade request, first wait 24 hours after you receive the grade. Requests must be made within two weeks of receiving an on-time grade, or one week of receiving a grade for a late submission. Please submit all regrade requests by filling out the survey below. We ask that you read it carefully, think carefully before requesting a regrade, and note that a regrade may result in a lower grade.
NB: We are working hard for quick, accurate, fair feedback. We do a fair amount of work in this class to ensure inter-grader consistency. If you have questions about grading, we ask that you bring them up in private Ed Discussion posts.
Please note:
In both lecture and section we aim for robust dialog in a mutually supportive environment. At a minimum, we expect you to follow the campus code of student conduct linked from here.
Students are expected to come to class on time, whether in person or remote, and to treat eachother and teaching staff respectfully.
We do not excuse individual absences in this course. We understand that people will sometimes have family conflicts, job interviews, religious commitments, illnesses, and other reasons why they cannot come to class. We expect you to contact other students for notes and to help you catch up on missed lectures or sections. If you have a serious situation that will potentially force you to miss a significant number of classes, please contact Prof. Csíkszentmihályi at cpc83 @ cornell.edu or via Ed Discussions to make an alternative plan for covering course material.
It is possible to hand in design workbook submissions and mini-projects up to 7 days after the assignment is due. You will be charged “slip days” for late assignments. A slip day is accrued starting immediately after the assignment is due (i.e. an assignment which is one hour late will incur a full slip day).
Life happens. We believe you are the best judge of when you need a break in the course. Therefore, we allow you some flexibility in handing in your assignments, to use at your own judgement, for situations such as routine illness, minor injuries, interviews, competing workload in other courses, extra-curricular activities, or just the need to take a break. You will have 7 free slip days that you can use to hand homework assignments in late at any point over the semester. For example, you could hand one workbook assignment in 4 days late, and one mini-project 3 days late without penalty. Each slip day beyond the 7 allowed for the course will result in a deduction of 1/2 point from your final course grade. Please note that free slip days cannot be applied to the final exam or to critiques.
Additional homework extensions can only be granted by the professors and are only granted under truly exceptional circumstances. It is wise to save your slip days for illness, sudden personal emergencies, and other unexpected events. We strongly discourage using slip days on your first assignment. Indeed, we encourage you to try to hoard them as much as possible, as semesters rarely become more easy as they go along.
Most students opt to not take the final exam, but the final exam carries a late penalty of 1 full letter grade (10 points out of 100) per hour late, starting immediately after the final exam is due (i.e. a final exam which is 10 minutes late will incur a full letter grade penalty).
Please note late assignments may be (very) delayed in grading, as they fall outside our regular course rhythm. This means that you may not receive feedback in time to incorporate it into future assignments, which is another reason to avoid using slip days early!
Passages beyond the stated word limits will not be counted toward the assignment. This can have a major impact, so please take word limits seriously.
We teach this course with the goal of reaching every student, no matter your circumstances. If you find that issues around ability, family commitments, health problems, religious commitments, legal issues, or other personal situations are impeding your ability to learn in this course, please reach out to the course instructors so we can make a personal plan to help you succeed. Reaching out early, before things get out of hand, makes it easier for us to help you effectively. Nevertheless, do not let being late deter you from reaching out.
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